Letting Children Listen to Music During Computed Tomography

Gümüşhane Universıty

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fear; Computed Tomography

Treatments: Other: Music

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06086509

A/BU-HEM-ZDİ-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study examines the effect of music during computed tomography in children. This study, conducted on a total of 60 children, was divided into two groups: the music group and the control group. According to the research results; showed that music reduces fear and anxiety levels in children and stabilizes vital signs (pulse and respiratory rate) during a tomography scan.

Full description

Aim: This research was conducted to determine the effect of music played during computerized tomography (CT) imaging in children on fear, anxiety and vital signs.

Method: This randomized, double-blind controlled trial was conducted with Consolidated Standards of Reporting Studies (CONSORT) guidelines. The sample includes children aged 5-10 years who had CT scans in the emergency department of a public hospital in eastern Turkey between April 18 and May 20, 2023 and met the inclusion criteria for the study. The research was completed with a total of 60 children, divided evenly into one of two groups. The nursing intervention of the research is to listen to music. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using the Child and Family Information Form, the Child Fear Scale, the State Anxiety Scale for Children, and the Vital Signs Monitoring Form (pulse, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation). Ethical principles were followed in the research.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being between the ages of 5-10
• Hospitalization is for diagnostic or treatment purposes
• The child and the parent speak and understand Turkish comfortably.

Exclusion criteria

• Having previous tomography shooting experience
• Having chronic diseases
• Visual, auditory, speech and mental disorders
• There is a history of sedative, analgesic or narcotic substance use within 24 hours before application.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Questionnaires and scales were filled out by the researcher five minutes before the CT scan. Routine CT scans were performed on the control group without listening to music by wearing a Bluetooth headset. The scales were repeated five minutes after the CT scan.

music group

Experimental group

Description:

Questionnaires and scales were filled out by the researcher five minutes before the CT scan. Just before the CT scan began, the children in the music group were started to listen to "Lullaby K 350" music by inserting a Bluetooth headset into their ears. If the process took longer, the music was played again. Additionally, the Bluetooth headset was properly disinfected before each use to prevent the spread of infectious diseases among patients.

Treatment:

Other: Music